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He also noted that the county's and the city's bid to preserve Buena Vista has one advantage over potential commercial buyers. He estimated that the relocation benefits that the Jissers would have to pay to each of the roughly 100 homeowners would be roughly $60,000, pushing the total to around $6 million. The public e... |
Despite this advantage, Simitian emphasized Tuesday that the preservation effort is now "a race against the clock." |
"The challenge is that no matter how substantial the relocation allowance is, there's really nowhere for anybody to go," Simitian said. "So then the question is: How do you actually avoid the closure of the park and its sale for subsequent development and preserve it?" |
The county quickly approved his request and directed staff to explore the various options in the nonprofit world. The potential partner would assume the liability for the tax-exempt revenue bond and then would own, maintain and manage the park. Cortese said at the conclusion of the discussion that the county knew all a... |
"But whatever process comes about involving third-parties or anything else, I think really almost from a moral standpoint we have very little alternative at this point, given the board's appetite to keep the affordable housing there," Cortese said. |
"He estimated that the relocation benefits that the Jissers would have to pay to each of the roughly 100 homeowners would be roughly $60,000" |
Since the originally payout offers averaged $25,000, does this mean that the value for a PAUSD education is estimated to be $35,000? |
"He [Simitian] estimated that the relocation benefits that the Jissers would have to pay to each of the roughly 100 homeowners would be roughly $60,000, pushing the total to around $6 million. The public entities, meanwhile, would not have to pay this sum because there would be no relocation associated with their purch... |
Are we to believe there will be no expenses in addition to the purchase price? Don't the "public entities" intend to rehabilitate this long-neglected trailer park after they buy it? |
Or is a planned few $million outlay of public money being temporarily concealed under the table here? |
I am tired of seeing this as front page news in today's Palo Alto Post. Enough already. The final outcome after all this bickering is very predictable and the trailer renters should have been making alternative plans all along. Joe S. needs to stop making the renters into victims who have no options or choices. It is a... |
There is no need to rush. |
The owner has been mightily abused by the city county and renters. He will never sell to them. |
The owner will just develop it himself and sue the city for (among other things) 15 years of delay and jacking up the mitigation costs in order to make it so expensive for the owner to close the park that he would accept low ball city/county offers for the property. |
"He also noted that the county's and the city's bid to preserve Buena Vista has one advantage over potential commercial buyers. He estimated that the relocation benefits that the Jissers would have to pay to each of the roughly 100 homeowners would be roughly $60,000, pushing the total to around $6 million. The public ... |
That is a clear admission that 15 years of rent control at BV and the added requirements that the owner compensate the renters for "safety" and "Schools" was done to increase the owners mitigation costs, and thereby give the city and county a financial advantage in a purchase of a citizens private property. |
Thank you Joe Simitian, Winter Dellenbaugh and whoever else is persevering. It seems there really may be a chance that Buena Vista will stay. Residents should be thanked for not accepting the powerless attitude stated in the above comments. If this works, Palo Alto benefits - not just residents there. Jim Keene should ... |
[Portion removed.] We PA all know this is a one sided reporting of events and it does not truly show the real sentiments of citizens near the BV park. |
If Joe feels that this cause is so personal to him as widely reported, I would like to see him put up his own money for this other than pledging and raiding public resources. Just another government employee gone rouge! |
Unbelievable. With so many other issues in this city, the city has focused so much time, effort and money on an old trailer park. The Jisser family has endured indentured servitude after a decade-long high-dollar mutiny by the tenants, their lawyers and the city. |
Instead of expending so much time and energy, for soundbites related trying to "save" a property that is not for sale, lets put that energy toward helping these people find, safe homes. |
And as far as the "comparable" arguments, there are no comparable mobile home sites within 35 miles that have zero amenities and allow converted RV's. |
Now the representative of the same voters proposes to spend other taxpayers' money to keep the mobile homes as THE affordable housing in Palo Alto. |
@ Anthony Gallo....Joe Simitian is in theater. He's a politician !!! They're all a bunch of actors. And yes, like most politicians he probably thinks his constituents are stupid. |
It's not over yet, the council is actually contemplating on how to modify the package further in order to raise the compensation. As if $60k per unit is not excessive already. I am willing to guess that the Jissers will sue the city while the RV park remains open for the next few years. Who could blame them, can anyone... |
No wonder the trailer/RV park gives the impression of being a "stable" neighborhood. The windfall profit they are expecting for their vehicles which have no value would provide an incentive not to move - but even hold out for more since more is being promised to them. |
Why bother have this comment board if you are removing postings that express a different view point? Thus is joke of a newspaper if all you want is to hear your own self talk. |
Well, me, this paper is not about balanced reporting and journalistic integrity. This paper is about increasing profits and pleasing certain people in the community. When criticism of said officials becomes to vocal, the "editor" steps in and removes those comments. Nothing offensive about the comments removed--they ju... |
At Buena Vista there are 117 “units”. For this exercise I am going to assume that they all pay the same monthly rental fee. |
Property tax from SCCA calculator is $362,003.00 per year. |
$5,000,000 loan to update park = $28,906 monthly payments. |
3 employees @ $45,000 per year = burdened labor of $202,500 per year. |
So that is a total of $2,988,611 per year or $249,050 per month. |
So before anyone runs off, can all the current tenants of the park afford monthly fees of at least $2,100 per month? |
Believe it or not the Buena Vista now has a place in world history. Palo Alto because of it's very well educated electorate has a thinking two thirds rather than a thinking third like most communities. Maintaining the Buena Vista as a trailer park in and of itself is a financial disaster. Land rents in Palo Alto are ar... |
Geroge Drysdale on the interent: The End of Rent Control, etc. |
Never ceases to amaze me how so many people choose to ignore that the Maybell project was oversized/dense, under parked and too tall...asking for waivers on everything. All they had to do was respect the zoning for the area...the project would be halfway built by now. |
If Palo Alto has a thinking two thirds electorate than how did certain individuals ever get elected to represent that area? Was there a massive brain freeze on election day? |
I don't understand why millions of dollars of public funds would be spent to benefit a handful of residents. Everyone who lives in this area has had to deal with rising housing costs. Why should these mobile home park occupants be singled out for special public assistance? It's unfair, and it's absurd. Those millions s... |
JO you are completely correct but Mr. Simitian decided he needed some positive press and attempted to ride to the rescue. It would be one thing if he did this out of concern for the people affected but he did it to make himself look large and in charge. He probably will get a few photo ops out of it and then move on to... |
In Simitian's defense, I assume more people asked him to help the Buena Vista residents than those who asked him to help the Jissers. |
Upholstering furniture is not an easy task, but fortunately, there are a few devices out there that can make an otherwise difficult job a lot easier. Metal tacking strips are essentially strips of metal with small nails integrated into them. These strips will allow you to recover an old piece of furniture that will loo... |
Trim a sheet of fabric to 1 inch larger than the area you wish to cover. Use your scissors to cut out the piece of fabric, making sure to take accurate measurements along the way. |
Insert the small nails of the tacking strip through the back of the fabric along the edges you just cut out. |
Fold the tacking strip under the fabric so that the nails are now facing away from the finished side of the fabric that you will be upholstering. |
Place the folded edge of the fabric against the structure of your piece of furniture, and, using your hammer, tap the strip to drive the nails into the structure. You should now have secured the fabric to the structure creating a straight line along the edge. Repeat for all sides, remembering to pull the fabric taut ag... |
Use flexible tacking strips for curves or corners; trim them down using some heavy shears or wire cutters as necessary. These strips are often sold on a roll; have them cut to the length you require. |
If the tacking strip is visible after application, consider using fabric glue to attach some piping or other trim along these edges. |
Fotheringham, Nikki. "How to Install Tacking Strips on Upholstery." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/install-tacking-strips-upholstery-83732.html. Accessed 18 April 2019. |
It took less than 10 minutes for the Worcester Salvation Army volunteers to pass out the 120 or so brown bag lunches they planned to distribute to the kids cooling off last Wednesday afternoon at the Dennis F. Shrine Memorial Pool at Vernon Hill Park. |
But the rapidity of the distribution shouldn't have been surprising, given that a large line of children immediately began forming as soon as the Salvation Army's large white emergency services mobile canteen wheeled into the paved lot near the pool area. |
For the past few weeks, the canteen truck — usually deployed to assist victims and emergency response personnel at fires and other calamities —has been regularly visiting 16 sites around the city, serving at least 700 lunches daily to at-risk and homeless children. |
Major Thomas Babbitt said his organization is targeting youngsters who get their lunches at school during the academic year. |
This is the second year the local Salvation Army is operating the program. |
The first was so successful that Salvation Army officials in eastern Massachusetts started a similar program in Boston's Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods this summer. The charity is hoping to begin a similar endeavor in Springfield next year. |
The 10-week program was developed over two years by Mr. Farrand and Michael Orfitelli, Salvation Army's New England disaster services coordinator. |
They got the idea from organization officials in New York City, who began distributing turkeys to the poor over the Thanksgiving season. |
In Worcester, the $70,000 program is sponsored by a donor, who requested anonymity. That benefactor has pledged to support the local program through 2015. |
Beacon Roofing in Boston is paying for the program in the Hub. |
The truck in Worcester stops at pools, shelters, housing projects, and other sites in a number of inner-city neighborhoods. |
Major Babbitt recalled that volunteers once gave lunches to three girls. When the canteen pulled around the corner, the youngsters were sharing their lunches with three other children. |
“The need is there,” he said. |
Mr. Farrand said teens up to the age of 17 are eligible, but noted volunteers wouldn't be averse to giving out a lunch to an adult in obvious need of a meal. |
The lunches consist of a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a drink, a Jell-O or pudding cup, and chips or pretzels. |
Last Wednesday, the meal featured turkey sandwiches. |
Melissa Fugere, who lives on Winthrop Street, said her children — Dylan, 7, and Sean, 13 — take advantage of the lunch about twice a week while swimming at the state-operated Shrine pool. |
People do not have to sign up in advance to take advantage of the program. |
According to officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 31 million youngsters across the nation received school lunches for free or at discounted prices in 2009 — the latest year for which figures are available. |
They said about 11.1 million youngsters also took advantage of free or discounted breakfasts through federal programs. |
In Worcester, almost 17,000 children qualified for free or discounted lunch during the last school year. The public schools are participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program, which provides free meals. Through Aug. 15, children of any age can receive lunch between 1 and 2 p.m. and di... |
A drilling boom has broken out in Texas following the discovery of huge reserves of natural gas under Fort Worth. |
Residents are cashing in by selling the rights to the resources in their back gardens. James Westhead reports from Texas. |
The Charlotte Hornets are in the midst of a terrible slide down the standings. What swingmen are available to give them the scoring punch they lack? |
The Charlotte Hornets are a pedestrian 14th in offensive rating, per NBA Stats, relying heavily on the playmaking abilities of Kemba Walker and Nicolas Batum. |
Walker especially doubles as the roster’s best one-on-one player, the place the team looks when they need a basket in crunch time and in late clock situations. |
Remaining so one-dimensional offensively will catch up to any team and it’s seemed to do so in Charlotte, with Walker’s field goal percentage returning to earth at about 44 percent the past two months after shooting a career-best 48 percent in November. |
Veteran forward Marvin Williams has returned to earth this season after shooting a career-best percentage from 3-point range last season and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist remains an absolute liability offensively without a semblance of a jumper. |
The Hornets attempt to alleviate some of the pressure offensively with Marco Belinelli and Frank Kaminsky playing 24 minutes a night, each with herky jerky moves that can con the defense into biting on their array of dips and stutters. |
The Hornets’ playoff chances are officially in jeopardy after this most recent slide. They made a move for Miles Plumlee last week, possibly a sign of things to come. Who else could be on Charlotte’s radar to shore up their squad? |
Swarm and Sting’s Jerry Stephens penned earlier this week the idea of swapping Wilson Chandler for Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, as Sam Amick of USA Today reported that Chandler is unhappy with his role on the Nuggets and wants out of Denver. |
The contracts match up, as both players are signed for multiple years at comparable prices, and in Kidd-Gilchrist Denver gets another young piece to grow with its youthful nucleus. |
In Chandler, Charlotte gets the scoring wing they so desperately crave. Despite his playmaking abilities, Batum is not a natural scorer, as his field goal percentage is down to 40 percent this season. |
Chandler is in the midst of arguably his best season, averaging 15.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists on .449/.338/.742 shooting. |
He’s a slashing wing that thrives operating downhill and using his 6-foot-8, 225-pound frame to create space between he and the defender. |
He also shoots much better on 3-pointers considered “open”, shooting 37.4 percent from deep on those shots, per NBA Stats. |
Trading for Chandler would give the Hornets a lineup of Walker, Batum, Chandler, Williams and Kaminsky or Miles Plumlee until Cody Zeller‘s return. A lineup with good length at four positions and positional versatility with the ability to space the floor. |
Steve Clifford’s scheme calls for floor spacing and 3-point shooting at a prolific rate. Chandler helps reach that goal. |
The Nuggets are ripe with trade assets and Danilo Gallinari is one of the most tantalizing. The 28-year-old forward is averaging 17.2 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.2 assists per night on .432/.381/.887 shooting. |
Recently Gallinari has been out due to a left groin strain, but the injury doesn’t seem overly serious. His size at 6-foot-10, 225 pounds makes him another swingman with positional versatility to play the 4 spot down, and he can bang bodies with surprising success. |
However its Gallinari’s shooting stroke and shot creator abilities that remain the most alluring. A career 86 percent free throw shooter, Gallinari also has developed a tendency to get to the free-throw line, attempting six free throws per game this season. |
In 2015-16, Gallinari finished fourth in the association with 8.2 attempts from the line per contest. |
The deal would likely include Kidd-Gilchrist, with a second Hornet pitched in to sweeten the deal for the Nuggets giving up their primary scoring option currently. |
Jameer Nelson would give the Hornets a bonafide second unit point guard and they are in need of one with after Ramon Sessions‘ torn meniscus. Gallinari gives Charlotte the option of playing him at the 2, 3 and 4, as Batum is also a Swiss army knife of sorts, able to play several positions. |
Those two working together as long-limbed wings attacking and playing off of one another would be a deadly threat alongside Kemba’s All-Star ability. |
The 30-year-old is looking more and more like the Wesley Matthews of old, as evidence keeps piling up that recovery from a torn Achilles is a two-year process. |
Matthews’ numbers are comparable to his Portland Trail Blazers 2014-15 season that netted him a four-year, $70 million contract from the Dallas Mavericks, as he’s averaging 15.2 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest on .398/.382/.815 shooting. |
He’s been Dallas’ secondary scorer most nights behind Harrison Barnes and is shooting a nice percentage from behind the arc on 7.3 attempts per game. |
Most importantly, he seems to have most of his quickness and all of his confidence back from that terrible injury two seasons ago. |
Matthews used to be a lockdown defender in Portland and may have the ability to return to that form in a more defensively oriented team in Charlotte. |
His 6-foot-5, 220-pound frame would be a perfect fit between Walker and Batum at the 2 spot, hounding opposing shooting guards on a nightly basis. |
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